Timeline

Timeline:

Day 1:

• Discuss assignment.
• Students choose partners/ Teacher pairs groups of partners.
• Groups choose cities.
• Teacher demonstrates how to set up wikispace for assignment.
• Groups set up wiki with username/password.

Day 2:

• Each student chooses a topic relating to city as their focus (weather, food, history, tourism).
• Students begin researching city online and taking notes for future use.
• Teacher demonstrates how to use citationmachine.net for students to use when citing sources to avoid plagarism.
• Discuss podcast assignment.

Day 3-5:

• Students gather sources, take notes, create podcast scripts and record video podcasts using flipcam.

Day 6:

• Discuss creating an itinerary.
• With groups, students research tourist sites and create hypothetical itinearies for a trip to their city.

Day 7-8:

• Discuss creating a trip budget.
• Teacher demonstrates how to use Excel.
• Groups research costs for flights, hotels. rental cars, food, and tourist attractions before creating a budget for their trip.

Day 9:

• Discuss blogging and the dangers associated with online journaling. (password protection, personal information, etc)
• Each student writes a blog entry about one day of their "trip" using www.blogger.com

Day 10-12:

• Discuss wikipage assignment.
• Students continue researching info about their cities to use when creating their travel website (wiki).
• Students must upload pictures, videos, files, podcasts, etc. to wiki.

Day 13:

• Travel Agency Day: The classroom will be turned into a travel agency and groups will present their projects.